His Name's Big Daddy

Thanks to Rex from Fool's Paradise for this killer diller dedicated to our hero.

From a deep, dark catacomb down in the Fool’s Paradise fur-lined fallout shelter comes this true Big Daddy Roth rarity courtesy of Attila and the Huns. Issued as the B-Side to their anthemic Sonics-rip “Mojo Cools”, this crunchy copy includes an autograph to “Sharon” from Attila himself!

Atilla and The Huns - My Name's Big Daddy

Miriam Linna - Rat Fink

Miriam's letter to Bill Gaines from Mad Mag!  Thanks, Mimsy!

Do The Rat Fink With Howie Pyro!

Big thanks to Howie Pyro over at Luxuria Music for playing an Ed "Big Daddy" Roth set on his show!  Listen here.  You can catch Intoxica Radio with Howie every Tuesday night live at 9 PM PST.  The show is also archived every week!

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth & Von Dutch On Network Awesome

Mr. Gasser And The Weirdos

Thanks to our pals over at Sundazed Records for donating these limited edition "Black Friday" LPs to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon!  Rods n' Ratfinks & Surfink!

Mother's Worry

You could win a sealed "Mother's Worry" model kit from 1996, if you pledge $15 or more to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon before Sunday!

Weird-Ohs On Wheels!

Thanks to J.R. Williams for donating this collection of Motor Monsters to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon!  You could win it if you pledge $15 or more before this Sunday's show.  Preview some tracks here.

Big Daddy Roth Month: The Orbitron-- Lost and Found!

Note the tricolor headlight array, mimicking the dot pattern on a color television screen. 

   The Orbitron was always a favorite of mine among Big Daddy's cars, but I'm apparently in the minority. There was never a model kit, slot car, or Hot Wheel, either in 1965 or since, and unlike the Outlaw and the Mysterion, it didn't even get its own Car Craft cover, as you can see.

Only approximately 1/12 of the cover? An insult!

 It had a short life on the car show circuit, and Ed sold it to Darryl Starbird in 1967 for $750. He sold it it to someone in Texas shortly thereafter, and it was lost to history for decades (one story holds that around 1973 it was in the hands of a teen-ager who actually drove it to school!). In recent years, it was tracked down in Ciudad Juarez, and it's since been restored to its original glory. Read the story here, and for more photos, click here.

This fellow is no relation, but he's also cool. Learn more about him here.

Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos

Hot Rod Hootenany was released in 1963 with cover art by Big Daddy aka Mr. Gasser.  Musicians included Ichiban All-Stars Gary Usher, Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole and Darlene Love, just to name a few!  Long out of print, the geniuses over at Sundazed Records reissued a limited edition run for Black Friday.

Happy Birthday Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

1932-2001

The Weird-Ohs - Francis The Foul

March Is Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Month

Coming soon